Mitsubishi
The MITSUBISHI GROUP (三菱グループ,
MitsubishiMitsubishi Gurūpu, also
known as the MITSUBISHI GROUP OF COMPANIES or MITSUBISHI COMPANIES,
and informally as the MITSUBISHI KEIRETSU ) is a group of autonomous
Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries. Its total
revenue is about 1.4% percent of Japan's GDP. It is historically descended from the MITSUBISHI zaibatsu , a unified
company which existed from
18701870 , founded by
Yataro Iwasaki , to 1947
and was disbanded during the occupation of
JapanJapan following World War
II . The former constituents of the company continue to share the
MitsubishiMitsubishi brand , trademark , and legacy. Although the group
companies participate in limited business cooperation, most famously
through monthly "Friday Conference" executive meetings, they are
formally independent and are not under common control
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Rhombus
In
Euclidean geometry , a RHOMBUS(◊) (plural RHOMBI or RHOMBUSES)
is a simple (non-self-intersecting) quadrilateral whose four sides all
have the same length. Another name is EQUILATERAL QUADRILATERAL, since
equilateral means that all of its sides are equal in length. The
rhombus is often called a DIAMOND, after the diamonds suit in playing
cards which resembles the projection of an octahedral diamond , or a
LOZENGE , though the former sometimes refers specifically to a rhombus
with a 60° angle (see
Polyiamond ), and the latter sometimes refers
specifically to a rhombus with a 45° angle. Every rhombus is a parallelogram and a kite . A rhombus with right
angles is a square
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Logo
A LOGO (abbreviation of LOGOTYPE, from Greek : λόγος logos
"word" and τύπος typos "imprint") is a graphic mark, emblem , or
symbol used to aid and promote public recognition. It may be of an
abstract or figurative design or include the text of the name it
represents as in a logotype or wordmark . In the days of hot metal typesetting , a logotype was one word cast
as a single piece of type (e.g. "The" in ATF
GaramondGaramond , as opposed to
a ligature , which is two or more letters joined, but not forming a
word). By extension, the term was also used for a uniquely set and
arranged typeface or colophon . At the level of mass communication and
in common usage, a company's logo is today often synonymous with its
trademark or brand
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Meiji Restoration
The MEIJI RESTORATION (明治維新, Meiji Ishin), also known as the
Meiji Ishin, Renovation, Revolution, Reform, or Renewal, was an event
that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor
Meiji . Although there were Emperors before the Meiji Restoration, the
events restored practical abilities and consolidated the political
system under the
Emperor of JapanEmperor of Japan . The goals of the restored government were expressed by the new
emperor in the
Charter Oath . The Restoration led to enormous changes
in Japan's political and social structure, and spanned both the late
Edo periodEdo period (often called the Late Tokugawa shogun ) and the beginning
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Water Caltrop
The WATER CALTROP is any of three extant species of the genus Trapa:
Trapa natans, T. bicornis and the endangered Trapa rossica. It is also
known as WATER CHESTNUT, BUFFALO NUT, BAT NUT, DEVIL POD, LING NUT,
LIN KOK, LING KIO NUT, or SINGHARA. The species are floating annual aquatic plants , growing in
slow-moving water up to 5 m deep, native to warm temperate parts of
Eurasia and Africa. They bear ornately shaped fruits, which in the
case of T. bicornis resemble the head of a bull or the silhouette of a
flying bat . Each fruit contains a single very large, starchy seed. T.
natans and T. bicornis have been cultivated in
ChinaChina and the Indian
subcontinent for at least 3,000 years for the edible seeds
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Rendaku
RENDAKU (連濁, lit. "sequential voicing ") is a phenomenon in
Japanese morphophonology that governs the voicing of the initial
consonant of the non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word.
In modern Japanese, rendaku is common but at times unpredictable, with
certain words unaffected by it. While kanji do not indicate rendaku, they are marked in kana with
dakuten (voicing mark)
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Brand
A BRAND is a name, term, design, symbol, or other feature that
distinguishes an organization or product from its rivals in the eyes
of the customer. Brands are used in business , marketing , and
advertising . NAME BRANDS are sometimes distinguished from generic or
store brands . The practice of branding is thought to have begun with the ancient
Egyptians who were known to have engaged in livestock branding as
early as 2,700 BC. Branding was used to differentiate one person’s
cattle from another's by means of a distinctive symbol burned into the
animal’s skin with a hot branding iron . If a person would steal the
animals, anyone could detect the symbol and deduce the actual owner.
However, the term has been extended to mean a strategic personality
for a product or company, so that ‘brand’ now suggests the values
and promises that a consumer may perceive and buy into
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Trademark
A TRADEMARK, TRADE MARK, or TRADE-MARK is a recognizable sign ,
design , or expression which identifies products or services of a
particular source from those of others, although trademarks used to
identify services are usually called service marks . The trademark
owner can be an individual, business organization , or any legal
entity . A trademark may be located on a package , a label , a voucher
, or on the product itself. For the sake of corporate identity ,
trademarks are often displayed on company buildings
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Shipping
FREIGHT TRANSPORT is the physical process of transporting commodities
and merchandise goods and cargo . The term SHIPPING originally
referred to transport by sea, but is extended in
American EnglishAmerican English to
refer to transport by land or air (International English: "carriage")
as well. "
Logistics ", a term borrowed from the military environment,
is also fashionably used in the same sense. CONTENTS* 1 Modes of shipment * 1.1 Ground
* 1.2
ShipShip
* 1.3
AirAir
* 1.4 Intermodal * 2 Terms of shipment
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links MODES OF SHIPMENTGROUND Main articles:
Road transportRoad transport and
Rail freight transport Land or "ground" shipping can be by train or by truck (International
English: lorry )
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Coal Mining
COAL MINING is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal
is valued for its energy content , and, since the 1880s, has been
widely used to generate electricity.
SteelSteel and cement industries use
coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement
production . In the United Kingdom and
South AfricaSouth Africa a coal mine and
its structures are a COLLIERY; a coal mine a PIT; the above-ground
structures the pit head . In Australia, "colliery" generally refers to
an underground coal mine. In the
United StatesUnited States "colliery" has been
used to describe a coal mine operation but nowadays the word is not
commonly used.
CoalCoal mining has had many developments over the recent years, from the
early days of men tunnelling, digging and manually extracting the coal
on carts, to large open cut and long wall mines
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Aircraft
An AIRCRAFT is a machine that is able to fly by gaining support from
the air . It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift
or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil , or in a few cases the
downward thrust from jet engines . Common examples of aircraft include
airplanes , helicopters , airships (including blimps ), gliders , and
hot air balloons . The human activity that surrounds aircraft is called aviation .
Crewed aircraft are flown by an onboard pilot , but unmanned aerial
vehicles may be remotely controlled or self-controlled by onboard
computers.
AircraftAircraft may be classified by different criteria, such as
lift type, aircraft propulsion , usage and others
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Petroleum
PETROLEUM (from Greek : petra: "rock" + oleum: "oil". ) is a
naturally occurring , yellow-to-black liquid found in geological
formations beneath the
EarthEarth 's surface. It is commonly refined into
various types of fuels . Components of petroleum are separated using a
technique called fractional distillation . It consists of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other
organic compounds . The name petroleum covers both naturally
occurring unprocessed CRUDE OIL and petroleum products that are made
up of refined crude oil. A fossil fuel , petroleum is formed when
large quantities of dead organisms, usually zooplankton and algae ,
are buried underneath sedimentary rock and subjected to both intense
heat and pressure.
PetroleumPetroleum has mostly been recovered by oil drilling (natural
petroleum springs are rare)
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Sopwith Camel
The SOPWITH CAMEL was a British
First World WarFirst World War single-seat biplane
fighter aircraft introduced on the Western Front in 1917. It was
developed by the
Sopwith Aviation Company as a successor to the
earlier
Sopwith PupSopwith Pup and became one of the most iconic fighter aircraft
of the First World War. The
CamelCamel was powered by a single rotary engine and was armed with
twin synchronized machine guns. Though proving difficult to handle, it
provided for a high level of manoeuvrability to an experienced pilot,
an attribute which was highly valued in the type's principal use as a
fighter aircraft. In total,
CamelCamel pilots have been credited with the
shooting down of 1,294 enemy aircraft, more than any other Allied
fighter of the conflict
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Glass
GLASS is a non-crystalline amorphous solid that is often transparent
and has widespread practical, technological, and decorative usage in,
for example, window panes, tableware , and optoelectronics . The most
familiar, and historically the oldest, types of glass are "silicate
glasses" based on the chemical compound silica (silicon dioxide, or
quartz ), the primary constituent of sand . The term glass, in popular
usage, is often used to refer only to this type of material, which is
familiar from use as window glass and in glass bottles. Of the many
silica-based glasses that exist, ordinary glazing and container glass
is formed from a specific type called soda-lime glass , composed of
approximately 75% silicon dioxide (SiO2), sodium oxide (Na2O) from
sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), calcium oxide, also called lime (CaO), and
several minor additives. Many applications of silicate glasses derive from their optical
transparency , giving rise to their primary use as window panes
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Steel
STEEL is an alloy of iron and other elements, primarily carbon .
Because of its high tensile strength and low cost, it is a major
component in buildings , infrastructure , tools , ships , automobiles
, machines , appliances, and weapons . Steel's base metal is iron, which is able to take on two crystalline
forms (allotropic forms), body centered cubic (BCC) and face centered
cubic (FCC) , depending on its temperature. It is the interaction of
those allotropes with the alloying elements, primarily carbon, that
gives steel and cast iron their range of unique properties. In the
body-centred cubic arrangement, there is an iron atom in the centre of
each cube, and in the face-centred cubic, there is one at the center
of each of the six faces of the cube. In pure iron, the crystal structure has relatively little resistance
to the iron atoms slipping past one another, and so pure iron is quite
ductile , or soft and easily formed
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